Dear crab, triangle, and butt related deal posting teams: Today is my last day at Woot. Next week I join your ranks. Thank you for your past and continued loyalty to Woot. It has been an honor. I have many friends amongst staff and the community and I wish everyone all the best.

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Team, I’m emailing this to inform you all that I plan to resign my position at Woot effective Friday June 15th to move on to future projects with fewer acronyms. Undoubtedly, a few words will not give justice to the quality of experience I have had working here and how much I’ll miss you all, but I’d be remiss to stay silent.

Through your hard work and inspiration (or at least suppression of your better judgment), we created one of the most refreshingly unique companies in the world; the most reluctant retailer possible—pitching as few items as we could with the least amount of hype for the least amount of time. We were idealistic and irreverent, and no retailer was more principled or transparent than us. Even in the worst of times, like when we found ourselves commercially viable, we fought the good fight and retained the honor and contrarian upside in our brand, our community, and even our dead-horse-beaten bags of crap.

Retail team, Wholesale team, Woot Workshop, Development, Customer Service, Community Deals, Operations, Accounting, HR… so many of you practice what can only be described as art and I am proud that in so many positions at Woot we developed great artists. I could not be happier that so many of you are growing and thriving in the current environment whether you started recently (finding us quirky) or long ago (finding us stupidly chaotic). I have the utmost faith that you will continue our success and expand the boundaries of retail for years to come. Remember: Always be the breakfast octopus.

As I move on, one of the things I truly look forward to is being impressed and humored every day I check Woot as a true customer and fan. I’ll soon get to be one of the crazies shouting “I stayed up for this?!!” with sarcastic enjoyment. Please don’t let me down.

Woot, it has been an honor and a pleasure to serve as your semi-fearless leader for the past 18 years…
Now get the hell out of my house and have fun at college.

Should there be opportunity for a happy hour on some future Friday in a town nearby you, first rounds on me.

Sincerely,

Matt Rutledge
Founder & Worst CEO Ever
Woot Inc.

TL;DR: You make Woot unique. I am proud to have been a part of what you are building. Carry on.

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@snapster If I had wings, you would be the wind beneath them. However, as I am neither avian nor pterodactylian in nature, and most certainly not angelic, I hope you will settle for being the wind betwixt my cheeks. And I say that with the utmost love and respect possible. Good luck to you.

Well...I hope you're proud of yourself! You've gone and made an old lady cry...these are very real tears falling on the turtle of my Slow Death woot shirt. :-( If this IS an epic prank I congratulate you as I have fallen for it hook, line, and sinker.

I'm going to go take a nap now and hope that I will wake to find this was just a very bad dream...

If not, best of luck Kiddo!! You have done an AMAZING job and you WILL be missed...

You guys need to give Matt a 21 monkey salute as he leaves today. You know, get up on the roof and fire them over his head in show of respect and solidarity. Either that or get EVERY employee on the roof and pelt him with a shower of monkeys.

@okham: Sorry I'm late. Things are crazy busy at work and me packing for my vacation this weekend. I'd rally the posse but I'm sure they've all got around to upvoting this deal.

That being said, I'm terrible with words and typing them into sentences but I'd love to thank @snapster for creating such a great site for all of us to congregate. I wish I could have been around for the more random times, but this last year has been a lot of fun for me around here. I'm eager to see what you have planned for the future. Also, Thanks for always making time to come down and personally address more concerns in the DW.Community, (More than I'd expect from anywhere else at least) and know that you will be greatly missed by all of us.

I wonder if Mortimer and Monte will have a nice farewell song for him, @matthew?

Thank you for creating a world that I have happily lived in for the last 7 years!

I have enjoyed all the friends I made here. Some of who have become real life friends, not just internet friends.

I have slept better at night, knowing that the leak frog will watch over the toilet when it is making a strange noise.

My kids and their friends roll their eyes at the woot shrines around the house...the robosapian, the monkeys, the woot off lights on the tv. Yet they are the first ones to check out if there is anything good in the boc. They all have endless woot shirts.

You had an idea and ran with it. You took all your friends along for the ride. That is special.

You changed my life in ways you will never know. I never imagined so much of my life would revolve around a web site.

Thanks for all you have created. Woot has brought me, my family (and countless others) untold fun, joy (and sometimes frustration). I look forward to future creations and endeavors that you may be a part of!

Adios, farewell, good-bye, adieu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG9I752Mmdk
Buy a hammock and just enjoy the sunshine...then come back here and help stir the pot and rouse the rabble. Remember, the the black-angles club meets behind the Walmart on Wednesday nights! Don't worry about the dues. You've paid yours and then some.

@snapster: Thank you so much for the years. You actually personally help solve an issue I had once experienced and since that time I have thought you were a great CEO and a great guy. Always spoke highly of you, you are a man of the people and should run for President.

Everyone thank you so much for an amazing send-off here. I was originally thinking I'd post that shirt as an easter egg for someone later to find with a few chuckles and then one thing led to the next and now I'm getting accolades for being a quitter. You are all too generous - the primary thing I'll take credit for during this fun ride was being a good listener. There are so many good ideas and collective wisdom if you allow the potential to listen. I'd say any good company is almost entirely plagiarized from ideas its customers bring to light. Luckily no one keeps track as you collect the best ones. I promise there are still great listeners on the Woot staff. I look forward to joining you in lobbing ideas their general direction.

I told the Dallas team I'd buy them a beer here if they'd agree to send me off - so I'm off for a happy hour shortly!

@dmmutti: one of the constant feedback reports to developers of the deals.woot reputational system was "hey this is not a tough enough rating system if my account keeps getting a black triangle" (though I see that even coasting 6 months I'm still purple!)

plus, more importantly, it'd take the fun out of it. Make it harder for all!

@snapster: I'd say you'll be missed, but hopefully you're just turning in your yellow square for a commoner's triangle. So are you still planning to lurk on the boards? Or is the community going to be -1 @snapster?

And even if you do pop in still, it'll be a little weird to know somebody else is sitting in your big-chair.

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Not a farewell, just a forced redirect.

It's true, Local.Woot is no longer, but please don't despair.

Never-ending savings are still to be found on Deals.Woot each and every day, so come on in. Don't think of it as a time for tears. Think of it as a way to bring us all closer together under one roof.

Sorry

This is only for people who have bought woots

We restrict voting to users who have purchased something from one of the other Woot stores. It's not just because we want your money (which we do) - it's the best way to be sure all the votes are coming from real people and not spam-bots or phony accounts. The best way we can think of, anyway. For now.

You can always get voting rights by buying something from one of Woot's other sites:

Purchases through Deals.Woot don't count, because in that case you're not buying anything from us. And we don't have your account information for those purchases.

If you think you've bought something from Woot before and still can't vote, make sure you're logged in with the same account you used to buy from us.

Geez, why so negative?

You have to vote up more before you can vote down.

Don't get us wrong. Negativity has its place. And downvotes are just as essential as upvotes when it comes to making Deals.Woot a useful place to find deals.

But when your votes lean so heavily toward the dark side, we have to wonder. Go vote up a few things. Accentuate the positive for a little while. It'll do you some good, and it'll do the site some good, too. Then you can get back to dealing out the smackdowns, OK?

Too late, we all heard you!

Hmm... you're wanting to take your vote back?

Well, that's a bit tricky. See, we do a lot of stuff with your vote, using it to work out the popularity of what you voted for, compare that to all the other things voted on, tally up our leaderboard, work out your reputation. Someday we'll do a little cartoon showing just how hard your vote is working.

Anyway, taking votes back messes all that up, so we give you five minutes, in case you just mis-clicked. After that we've got to say no take-backs. Luckily, votes are free, so feel free to throw them around left and right wherever you see fit.